SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
A few days ago the second edition of the comprehensive manual regarding MySQL 5.6 was published, authored by our employee Stefan Pröll together with Eva Zangerle and Wolfgang Gassler of the University of Innsbruck. Admins and experienced users will find everything pertaining to the installation, configuration and ongoing management of… Read More
Im Telefoninterview mit help.orf.at: Edgar Weippl, Fachmann für Softwaresicherheit an der TU Wien, begrüßt die Neuentwicklung: “Prinzipiell ist dieser Ansatz …” (Details)
In an effort to contribute to existing and upcoming standards, SBA Research joined OASIS and contributing member and our researchers will participate in several technical committees. Read More
Mining patterns of human behavior from large-scale mobile phone data has potential to understand certain phenomena in society. The study of such human-centric massive datasets requires new mathematical models. In this talk I will discuss a novel probabilistic topic model, the distant n-gram topic… Read More
We just received an important grant to improve the research capabilities of several industrial partners. The topics of this grant are Malware Analysis, Privacy & Obfuscation.
SBA Research ist in der neuen ZIT Broschüre „Symbiose von Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft in Wien – COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies“ vertreten.
Nach zwei erfolgreichen Young Researcher‘s Days starten wir heute in Runde drei. Frau Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl und Herr Edgar Weippl laden ganz herzlich zum 3rd Young Researcher’s Day ein, der im Rahmen des ACM SIGSAC Chapters Vienna und des OCG-Arbeitskreises IT-Sicherheit am 25.06.2013 stattfindet. Als Grundgedanke hinter diesem Event steht der… Read More
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞
The IRIS web application in version 2.4.26 and possibly others is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the assets (CVE-2026-16969), custom attributes (CVE-2026-18360) and datastore upload (CVE-2026-18361) functions. ∞
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞